Sat 11/1 @ 5PM
It was quite a coup when SPACES then-gallery director Tizziana Baldenebro and former moCa curator Lauren Leving were chosen to curate the U.S. Pavilion at 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Their exhibition, Everlasting Plastics, focused on “the ways [plastics] both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment,” as interpreted by five diverse artists from Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio.
The artists who created site-specific installations included Xavi Laida Aguirre, assistant professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Detroit-based designer Simon Anton; Ang Li, assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University; Norman Teague, assistant professor of industrial design in the School of Design at the University of Illinois Chicago; and Cleveland sculptor/conceptual artist Lauren Yeager.
The show then came back stateside to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art last year. And now it’s finally landed in Cleveland where it with. Be on view at SPACES through January 17
This weekend SPACES is holding a party called A Plastic Homecoming which, landing on Halloween weekend as it is, is encouraging attendees to were “outrageous” outfits to a “wild, art-fueled costume bash.” The events, which will feature light bites, a cash bar, and local DJ Red-! (Brittany Benton) spinning records for dancing from 6:45-10pm. Buy a VIP ticket and come to the pre-party across the street at Patron Saint for food, drinks and early access to the online auction.
Proceeds benefit SPACES’ programming next year, a new residency program and general operations. Go here for tickets.